| And thank you as well Jeremy for a most interesting post,you have highlighted some very valid and worthy points.
It is hard to imagine which way fighter aircraft development would have gone,if it had not been for the Battle of Britain interveaning ? the transition from biplanes to monoplane monococque construction was certainly the biggest leap for designers,and as you say Camms designs echos shadows of this more than once in the Hurricane,take away the upper fuselage fairings and underneath you have the basic structure of the dear old Hart,the Hurricane sure was another Hawker beauty in a different sense.The Spitfire on the other hand was tackled just like the Me.109 was in that complex jigs ensured a smooth fuselage shape with built up formers and metal skinning,on the other hand the Hurricane still had a fair bit of fabric employed once again a throw back from the biplane days at Hawker's,a bulkier look about her with that thick chord wing,certainly more labour intensive for servicing.
In fairness perhaps the Hurricane, never achieved the same glory as the Spit due to the heavy public love of this machine over the years,both equally good machines when in service together,much like as happened throughout the history of fighter aircraft whereby one complements the other in some small way as you have rightly pointed out.
Regarding the award to Mitchell,it just seems that as a nation we tend to honour lesser mortals with silly highly inflated awards for relatively mundane things,where as Mitchell shaped the history of mankind with his creation for the better of the world,such men of iron are a rare find today,we need to honour such dedicated people that helped us greatly in such times of need.
Regarding the movie here is another golden chance to make another worthy re-make of a truly great man.
Thank you.
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